Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper. Junot Diaz Poetry
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' John Drane Poetry
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. Sylvia Plath Poetry
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. Sylvia Plath Poetry
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. Satya Nadella Poetry
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. Sturgill Simpson Poetry
'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. Phillipa Soo Poetry
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Erik Satie Poetry
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young Poetry
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. Simon Callow Poetry
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. Paul Rand Poetry
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something. Junot Diaz Poetry
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. Elvis Costello Poetry